50 great things about Prince's 'Sign O' The Times'

I haven't seen this since we threw out our VCR (we had a VHS copy) so I'm pretty excited to hear that my Twin Peaks:the Return-motivated Showtime subscription comes w this bonus

I don't understand why that article calls the SotT movie "rare" and "out of circulation"? It's been reissued on Bluray which is pretty easy to find, or at least it was when I bought it a couple of years ago. Great concert movie anyway, all the little stories that come with each song's performance are neat, and the choreography is gorgeous. And it has that massive Sheila E drum solo, my favourite part!

it is not available in America

multi-format copies of it on Amazon are currently $175

Oh, that's weird. Why would they reissue it in Europe but not the US?

some rights dispute, I assume. bigger Euro market, who knows

Forget it Shakes, it's Paisley Park.

[snips nostril]

There's a Japanese Blu-Ray you can get for about $50 which is Region A, meaning it will play on standard US players.

Here you go.

80. The way "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" takes a curve from 80s New Wave pop into an early 70s "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"/Traffic blues rock jam, from which it only returns for a very brief instrumental reprise of the first part of the song, then out.

― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, July 6, 2016 1:23 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, with a screaaaaaaaaam.

That's my favorite song on this. It has a good message too -- don't lead on single mothers looking for companionship when you're out at the bar on a lonely friday night.

Region 2 DVD available for as little as £3.36 - multi-region DVD players are CHEAP

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Sign-O-Times-DVD/dp/B0009PZ89E/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1503572329&sr=1-1&keywords=sign+o+the+times

yeah I had that dvd and... gave it away :O

quite a few dvd players can be made multi region using a universal remote (or another customizable ir-transmitter, some old phones can be used)

Until Youtube just started putting up Prince videos, I had never seen the video for Sign O The Times before, so I didn't realize that Prince was somewhat responsible for the birth of the lyric video.

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PSA: Sign O’ The Times is on Amazon Prime.

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If only Stop Making Sense had plasma ball interludes, then it might be as good as Sign O' The Times.

Also, the outfits in the So'TT film have held up better than Purple Rain.

Um...holy shit.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZM5i3CXkAA3Dbm.jpg

Oh man I needed this.

This is my favorite album so I guess I have to get the big box.

I need to know what's in the box but yeah, I'm definitely buying some version of this.

Presumably the big box will include all the stuff that ended up on Crystal Ball + B sides and unreleased tracks from that era + the movie? It's easy to imagine all that measuring to 8 CDs... The 1999 box already had two CDs worth of unreleased tracks from the vaults, and AFAIK there's way more of those from the SOTT era.

Oh hell yes

ALERT ALERT partial tracklist

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Why yes please.

That live show (12/31/87) is the one where Miles Davis appeared.

I don't know why I want to throw more money at this when the big box will bankrupt me, but I would love standalone releases of Camille, Dream Factory, Crystal Ball...

I’m s bit surprised that Dream Factory isn’t included within this box

C U R R E N T L Y U N K N O W N

with Australian ears I've always thought "turn on the telly" in the title track sounded slightly incongruous - like, I associate "telly" with the UK and feel the US is more of a "teevee" kinda place - or is this just the result of over-reductive generalising

sorry for this monumentally inconsequential q but every time I listen to this it makes me curious and I will never find a better place to make the enquiry

It's always stuck out for me, too. A weird affectation. It's not like saying "telly" instead of "TV" changes the flow of the line in any way.

Well, fwiw, he was coming off the Parade tour through Europe, maybe that had something to do with it.

I listen to the fan remastered Sign-era box all the time, this will be great. I'm beginning to sense a pattern: release a deluxe edition of a Prince masterpiece, then a bunch of shitty stuff from the 90s and beyond, then a deluxe masterpiece, then a bunch of shitty stuff, then another masterpiece ...

It's a marathon, not a sprint, I guess.

One of the fondest compilations in my collection: a CD-R of those DF and CB outtakes.

We appear to have a formal tracklisting:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMXT2SK/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=prince&qid=1592933387&refinements=p_lbr_music_artists_browse-bin%3APrince%2Cp_n_date%3A1249114011&rnid=1249111011&s=music&sr=1-4

Tracks not listed in the earlier summary include "Wally," "Cosmic Day," "When the Dawn of the Morning Comes," "I Need a Man" and various others.

The CD version is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMSF4XT/50.

Sorry, bad link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMSF4XT

I listen to the fan remastered Sign-era box all the time, this will be great. I'm beginning to sense a pattern: release a deluxe edition of a Prince masterpiece, then a bunch of shitty stuff from the 90s and beyond, then a deluxe masterpiece, then a bunch of shitty stuff, then another masterpiece ...

Great to have a "Everybody Want..." and "Cosmic Day" remastered/mastered but where is "Traffic Jam" which is ... a godlike instrumental?!?

Also - about 5 things here I never heard of before so really psyched.

Hoping that price comes down a little. I don't think I paid more than $65 for the 1999 CD box. This obviously has a few more discus, but feels like a big jump.

discs even

Looking at the setlist from that Paisley Park show, looks like none of the Miles Davis-featured songs are on the dvd tracklist
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/1987/paisley-park-studios-chanhassen-mn-4bd857c2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjgKgirygjA

Looking at the setlist from that Paisley Park show, looks like none of the Miles Davis-featured songs are on the dvd tracklist

According to the press release, all the Miles live tracks are all part of a long medley - it's the last track on the DVD.

Great interview with the archivist who put the box together; he explains why the movie isn't included (basically, Prince sold the rights).

Fwiw, the movie is still up as a free title on Prime.

Holy shit, "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" is from 1979!?

Yeah that's a hell of a shocker. That and these unreleased remixes and more -- gotta say, Howe really seems like a first-rate guy to be doing this work based on the details in the answers and the clear care he's got with the material.

Totally makes sense in a way, I always think of it as a companion to When You Were Mine

If ‘Witness For The Prosecution’ is anything to go by we’re in for a treat...

Totally makes sense in a way, I always think of it as a companion to When You Were Mine

I was about to preorder the deluxe box set this on Amazon, but wtf is up with its price? On the German Amazon it's 153 euros (with taxes) and on the US Amazon it's 160 dollars! The 1999 box set had 5 CDs and 1 DVD and it cost 72 euros on Amazon, and I felt that one was already a bit pricey, but this one has 8 CDs and 1 DVD and it costs twice as much? The price is pretty much the same as if you would buy 9 individual albums separately, which is ridiculous for a box set.